Anyone else out looking over the birds?
Some mornings are bringing forth the gobbling. That gets the blood a moving.
Seems to be more hens alone or with fewer poults this year and some of the poults are small very small. Must have renested late to have poults this late barely able to fly.

later, charlie If you agree with me call it fact; if you disagree - call it my opinion. After all - we are talking turkey.

The first 2 weeks of July we had heavy rains 35 inches for the month vast majority during early July. This caused a lot flash flooding in the valleys. I went out scouting to see the affects on wildlife and found lots of ground nesting birds dead floating at the dams by the valley's base. Many of the dead were small turkeys.[:(]
My hope is those surviving hens re-nested and that accounts for the really small poults I'm seeing now. The buggers can barely fly!
Speaking of bugs the mosquitoes are so thick you have to wear a headnet to avoid breathing them in. Out one morning without it I got so full there was no sense to eating breakfast.

later, charlie If you agree with me call it fact; if you disagree - call it my opinion. After all - we are talking turkey.

We had a great hatch this year!
Alot of our poults are close to the size of their mommas, and I have seen many, many brood flocks with large numbers of younguns'.
After last years terrible hatch, we needed a good one.

Yea I been hearing the hatch out East is incredible this year with mega flocks wandering around. The NE is on my list of places to hunt. One of my bucket list items is to hunt something in all 50 states, got 13 left to go mostly out East. I am planning to spring hunt Maine in 2011 mainly because they have the very last turkey season in the country. How cool to have the chance to shoot the very last turkey nationwide in the spring of 2011. [:)]

Yea I been hearing the hatch out East is incredible this year with mega flocks wandering around. The NE is on my list of places to hunt. One of my bucket list items is to hunt something in all 50 states, got 13 left to go mostly out East. I am planning to spring hunt Maine in 2011 mainly because they have the very last turkey season in the country. How cool to have the chance to shoot the very last turkey nationwide in the spring of 2011. [:)]

Thank you for the kind words, Charlie!
My son and I went scouting last weekend and saw 2 large flocks(20+ birds in each flock), and we saw 2 mature gobblers that if me and my son have anything to say about it, are down to their last 6 weeks of life!
Good luck to everyone on their fall hunts. I ate tag soup this spring, and did'nt care for it at all. I'm in hopes of a little October redemption!